Weallseek toparticipatein this event, and if weare accepted, choose how many weekswe want totry to beatour personalspeed records, or if youhave a lot ofexperience andgreat couragecan actuallystand thereas the world’sfastestman or woman on water pulld by a sail or a kite. Awesome 🙂

My year started with setting my training schedule, ordering new Cabrinha Velocity kites from my great friends Patrik Johansson, Marcus Boman with the super crew at Surfers in Varberg-Sweden and 2 speedboards from my awesome shaper Phil Carbon.

Erik Beale was my traveling friend this year and we met atFrankfurt airportfor onward travelto Windhoekin Namibia andan absolutely amazingtripin thecar for about 900kmthrough thesmall townsandthe Big desertto reachLuderitzonNamibia’swest coast. We both have a lot of energyand a lot totalk aboutduringsuch a long journey. Itallowed us toknow one anotheralot.

We metour good friendsduring the ceremonythat takes placeevery weekto welcomeus andto say thanks and goodbye tothe great speedsurferswho leavethe event.We weremany great friendsthat gatheredduringthe last 2 weeks. We all have easy to laugh and entertain usandat the same timegive everything tosupporteach otherduring the speedevent.

What manydo not know isthat we are allfrom differentbackgrounds. Weare full-timeprofessionals insurfing, workers, lawyers, musicians, entrepreneurs, instructors, kitesurfinginstructors, lifeguards, volunteers, racersand so on. We areall coming fromall parts ofthe worldand feel ahuge communitythroughspeedsurfingand I feelenormouslyprivileged which has the possibility so sitt downon a planeto flyover Europe, and almost all of Africaand drivethrough thedeserttomeet everyonein a smallvillage inNamibia.Itis pure love to do this and tomeet like-mindedspeedsurfersin FantasticLuderitz. Miss you all already 🙂

The first day I test the channel i got 3 runs in light wind and then the wind got up to impressive +60 knots. So strong that I got to be here to see both men and womens worldrecord be beeten . Amazing 🙂